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...Castelli's new album was recorded in Munich last year on a grant from an award that she received for playing, among other pieces, the Wieniawski Scherzo-Tarantelle that appears on the recording. The entire process took two days: one to record and one to edit the tracks...

Author: By Myung Joh, Jennifer Liao, and Dan L. Wagner, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: Finding Release | 11/19/1999 | See Source »

...might be expected with Paganini's work in general, the violin usually has the more interesting of the two parts, and I compliment Sollscher for his consistently sensitive playing. Shaham is right at home in the genre, and considering his knuckle-busting recording of Wieniawski's first violin concerto, the works are but child's play for such a player gifted with a singular virtuoso technique. To his credit, Shaham avoids adding excessive schmaltz, and concentrates on making solid music with the material...

Author: By Brian D. Koh, | Title: Shaham and Sollsher Top All the Charts | 7/22/1994 | See Source »

...Theme of Corelli in the Style of Giuseppe Tartini." But he sometimes tried to fool other composers by publishing old-style pieces under the names of 18th century composers (for example, "Andantino by Padre Martini.") Kreisler saves face by striking a balance between technicality and musicianship. Unlike Paganini, Wieniawski, Ysaye and other violin virtuosi-composers, he has warm melodies, sweet harmonies...

Author: By Robert F. Deitch, | Title: Virtuosity Alone | 12/2/1981 | See Source »

Mozart, Beethoven, Wieniawski, Bartok--Rovin Avery '80, piano, Lawrence Wu '80, violin; Leverett House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Weekly What Listings Calendar: March 15-March 21 (film listings on page four) | 3/15/1979 | See Source »

Wojtyla's closest friends include artists and intellectuals as well as clerics. He is a lover of music?Bach, Poland's Henry Wieniawski and folk songs being favorites. A New Hampshire woman remembers that she once broke her leg while skiing in Poland and was serenaded in the nearby hospital by a group of fellow skiers; only later did she learn that the guitarist was Bishop Wojtyla. On retreats, he often takes the guitar along and sings late at night with fellow priests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Foreign Pope | 10/30/1978 | See Source »

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